3 Aug 2006 @ 13:36, by Shreepal Singh
Then, there are other questions also. Is it possible that the march of science and technology would make the 'direct' struggle of people with nature possible and bypass the social mechanism of Capitalism and Communism? In any way, in the dialectical scheme of things, modem 'Communism' is the 'dead end' of social evolution. Would this 'dead end' usher in the first stage in a new social evolutionary course of a race of beings that must be higher than humans?
These are some of the thoughts that spring up in one's mind when faced with the vehemence of claim that dialectical materialism is a 'scientific' law of social evolution.
However, the truth may not be so simple in its operation in nature. Scientific investigation of Nature today shows that the concept of "dialectics" is an oversimplification of nature. Nature is much more complex in its constitution and movements, and, continuous strides of modem science tell us, our knowledge of this complexity goes on changing without stop. Perhaps, the only scientific attitude today is that one should always be open to change his rigid view of nature and its laws. And this flexibility is in the interest of truth, whatever it might be. Hegel had understood the movement of Nature in a way better than Marx and Marx by turning his dialectics upside down has distorted it.
In fact, Karl Marx made Dialectics stand on its head by claiming supremacy and universality of matter and Divine Lord - Idea of Hegel - a mental thought being a mere product of matter.
However, despite the conflicting positions held by Hegel and Marx over the supremacy of idea or matter in nature, the dialectical nature of change remains identical in its operation in nature. These dialectical principles of change fall under three heads.
• Firstly, he said, there always exist universal and irreconcilable contradictions in every thing.
• Secondly, these contradictions bring about a change in the thing concerned. This change at a critical point takes the shape of transformation of quantity into quality of the thing resulting into forward movement at a qualitatively higher step, or revolution.
• Thirdly, the forward movement follows a spiral pattern where lower stages are repeated again and again at ever-higher levels. This dialectical process of forward movement may be understood as spiral evolution.
Mind is a powerful tool to understand truth at the disposal of life and it is a model of evolution constructed by mind. However, mind itself is the product of life-evolution and is not capable to realize real truth lying masked behind appearance. Till one goes beyond Mind and realizes Truth of the existence in the Light of higher Consciousness, Mind is his useful guide. Mind is illumined by non-other than the sole Divine Light, though in its receiving it distorts this Light much.
Mind, as though through haze, gropes for and receives in return some rays of Light, of truth. Therein lays the usefulness of this mental concept of revolution and evolution. We leave it to the reader to discern for himself any sign of its operation in Nature's Life cycles. If found so operating, human Mind in this may get one more extra reason in support of the impending unique revolution - revolution that transforms mankind's consciousness from mundane existence to the highly conscious goal oriented human life - in human history.
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